The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-16

that "the boys" have given us SO good
send off, and take pleasure in pre-
senting as many of their remarks as
we have room for to our home readers:
lola Kansas is Growing over big
gas well.--Kdnsds Farmer.
The lola papers are now blossoming
out with illustrations of burning gas
wells.-Girdrd Press.
lola is worked up over their gas
find. According to the Courant it is a
big thing for Iola.-Kincdid KrOnicte.
The people of the metropolis of Allen
county, are very much inflated with
their discovery of gas.--Bronson Pilot.
The "reading matter on every page"
of the last issue of the lola REGISTER.
runs. lola has the best natural gas
well in the Sta e.'-NeWtOn Repubi
can.
lola is greatly excited over finding
the biggest gas well in Kansas. When
| lighted the flame shoots up fifty feet
and the roar of escaping gas can be
heard three Walnut Journal.
" lola has been jollifying over newly
discovered gas well. They claim that
"the roar of the escaping gas can be
heard long distance, aud the flame Of
the ignited gas leaps up to a height OF
forty or fifty feet."-FOrt Scott Mont
tor. :
lola is happy. The Carriage Com
pany of that city in sinking we'll at
their works struck a strong hOw of
natural gas that roars as it escapes like
a regular geyser; The flame when ig.
, nited leaps forty feet into the air.-F.
Scott Monitor.
lola seems to have struck it rich in
t the gas line. The new well at the
Carriage Works is believed to be the
: best in the state andwill supply gas for
E the engine, and for lighting and warm
ing the building, and have plenty to
: spare besides.-MOran Herald.
Natural gas has been found in pay
ling quantities at lola, Allen county and
the citizens have been guilty of several
demonstrative meetings in which they
expressed their exhuberance of spirits
by appropriate speeches etc, etc. Poor
old Humboldt. Not even a fighting
chance left.-AltOona ADVOCATE.
At lola last Friday the largest flow
of gas vet found there was struck in
the well being sunk by the Carriage
lCompany in their works west of town
1t is said that the roar of escaping gas
can be heard for a long distance and
the flames of the ignited gas leap up
to a height of fifty feet. If the supply
holds out, it will be big thing fol
Iola.-Neosho Fails Post.
VI The latest gas strike at lola fully
D demonstrates the adaptabillty of thi.
II state as q manufacturing state, ant
n further, longer delays the day when
Kansas will become democratic fret
=. trade state. The new lola we'll is
a what is known as a gusher, and with
Is the imperfect means at hand showed
, pressure of seventy-three pounds
When the gas is properly piped ant
'e confined it will register a pressure O
8. nearly, if not quite, 100 pounds. The
d Carriage Works Company sunk Thu
Of we'll to solve the fuel problem, ant
inow, as their 40 horse power engine
C. runs with self fed fuel from nature'
Y store house, Kansas people can well
so }rejoice with lola citizens. In addition
,r to other things the good people OF Iol
will escape from the clutches of tn
as Pennsylvania coal monopoly, as the
H. will have plenty of clean, cheap fue
ep for heating purposes. The gain OF Ioi
in is the gain of the entire state-IOpekt
;, Letter in K. C. Journal.